It seems to be quite popular.
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Mon, 19/1/09, ANDREW GOLDSWORTHY
wrote:From: ANDREW GOLDSWORTHYSubject: Mobile Phone Antennas on Water TowersTo:cr_feedback@thameswater.co.ukDate: Monday, 19 January, 2009, 9:01 AM
Dear Sirs, You are doubtless aware that there are many water conditioners on themarket that are designed to remove lime scale from plumbing and also toprevent new scale forming. They nearly all work by applying a weakpulsed electromagnetic field to the water as it passes through the supplypipe. This affects the balance of ions bound to colloidal impurities tomake them more attractive to calcium ions. The affected colloidalparticles can then slowly remove lime scale from plumbing as well asforming efficient crystal nuclei that results in any new scale forming onthem (and remaining in suspension) rather than on surfaces. The point I want to make is that the pulsed radiation from mobile phoneantennas mounted on water towers could have a similar effect on thewater stored inside so that the entire water supply from the tank could beconditioned (N.B. the conditioning effect can last for several days). At firstsight, this might seem a good thing, but conditioned water can havebiological effects (see attached paper) and could be mildly toxic in itsown right.However, perhaps more serious is that if it were to remove the protectivelime scale from lead plumbing, the water would become contaminatedwith lead,and the customers concerned would suffer lead poisoning.Perhaps you should investigate this as a matter of urgency and, if my fearsare justified, ask the mobile phone operators concerned to remove theirantennas from your water towers.
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